redeemed myself a bit
Wordle 205 4/6
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amazing how even in an activity as low-stakes as this i can manage to form an opinion about what score is "just barely passing" (it's 4 btw). i bet i stop breathing properly when i start these until i finish them
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there's a way that i tend to approach puzzles by like staking my entire intellect on being able to solve them. it works if i can solve them consistently but otherwise it's miserable; this is why i couldn't get through the witness
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remembering university when I was into a girl who was a bit involved with another guy and we were all simultaneously taking a class in abstract algebra which they were both good at and I was in my dorm taking L-theanine and struggling furiously to understand quotient rings
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I didn't get the girl, dropped out of the class, but I did manage to learn Agda enough to formalize some basic theorems of group theory
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Ya. When I was younger, I would experience extreme visceral discomfort when faced with unsolved puzzles.
It's one of the things that has made me who I am, and I am happy about that, but I'm glad that aspect of my psychology has greatly deintensified with me age.
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The deintensifying was, interestingly enough, largely a result of turning this drive to solve puzzles in on itself.
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oh yeah this is why I don't collaborate on the kitchen. meal quality =my value as a human
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The Witness taught me the power of walking away from a problem as an actual long game problem-solving strategy.
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